Well this is an interesting coincidence: only hours ago we were telling you about some rumors concerning LG's G Pro series of smartphones, with claims arriving that the manufacturer could be done with the G Pro lineup entirely. That led to us talking about LG and phablets in general, and how with its G-series flagships growing each generation, there might not be a need for a separate phablet - at least, barring some cool feature like the Note 4's S Pen stylus. Now, while LG does have the stylus-equipped G3 Stylus (above), the phone's hardware falls seriously short of G3 quality, and the ...

LG's had no lack of smartphones this year, releasing phones like the LG G3, G3 Beat, G3 Vista, and more in rapid succession throughout the year. As we draw closer to IFA 2014, the company is going official with some of the products it wants to show off there as well, as was evidenced by the unveiling of the LG G Watch R yesterday. Today, the LG G3 Stylus smartphone has been officially announced to further buff up the company's impressive Android portfolio. The G3 Stylus has a 5.5-inch qHD (quarter, not quad) display in a body designed similarly to LG's other 2014 Androids – the design ...

The stylus has had a pretty traumatic life. It was a necessary tool back in the beginning of the smartphone and PDA era, as mobile operating systems weren't designed with stubby fingertips in mind. Rather, buttons, soft keyboards, and entire UIs were fixated beneath resistive touch screens, which didn't discriminate between a user's fleshy digits or retractable pen tips. Quite literally, you could use just about any ol' object as a stylus, so long as it was strong enough to squeeze the protective plastic coating and digitizer together. The finer the point, the better. The stylus all but ...

Yesterday LG brought us a bit of a surprise. Whether that was intentional or not remains to be seen, but for whatever reason, the manufacturer was caught promoting the unannounced LG G3 Stylus in the outro for a G3 Beat video. We saw what sure looked like a G3, but with the notable addition of an integrate (capacitive) stylus. Still, there were early signs that this wouldn't be as straightforward as taking the G3 as we know it today and giving it a stylus; things like the single LED flash on the phone's back hinted at possible downgrades compared to the flagship model. Today we hear some ...

If you're a big smartphone OEM, chances are that you've got a phablet as part of your lineup. Maybe you're Samsung with the Galaxy Note, Sony with the Xperia Z Ultra, or Nokia with the Lumia 1520. But what's LG's entry? The Vu series initially felt like the company's phablet effort, with the requisite stylus (even it it was capacitive), but in recent years the flagship G-phone itself has grown to the size where it nearly feels like a phablet (not to mention how Vu models have failed to keep up on the spec side of things). So is that that? Should we just treat the G3 as both LG's phone and ...